Visits: 16 Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. ‘Good Yezha’ Yezha, my dad’s old dog, was missing one leg and all her teeth. Weeks before my son and I visited them in Warsaw, …
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Finding Forgiveness in Her Smile’
Visits: 24 Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. ‘Another Attempt to Make Life Better’ I lifted tiers of tulle off the dressing room carpet and sighed heavily. “Every layer must be hemmed,” I …
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Why Did I Choose Her?’
Visits: 20 Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Crush Since Day 1 In 1997 I wanted a new tax guy. I was referred to Mike. He had a great smile, and I …
Tiny Love Stories: ‘His Wife Invited Me Over’
Visits: 21 Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Our First Day as a Family At the Hanoi orphanage, 4-month-old Leo would not meet my eye. Good! Leo’s withdrawal suggested he was attached to …
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Looking for a Casual Fling’
Visits: 24 Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. 365 Dips On a Cape Cod beach last January, I braced for my daily cold water plunge. “Can I join you?” asked a stranger. I …
Tiny Love Stories: ‘It All Began So Innocently’
Visits: 23 Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Falling Upward It all began so innocently: snow falling at dusk, a crackling fire, an embrace between three old friends. Soon, I was floating away …
Tiny Love Stories: ‘My First Post-Divorce Christmas’
Visits: 26 Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. He’ll Be Home for Christmas! “I’ll drive; it’s 20 hours and I’ll be there for Christmas dinner,” my husband, Edwin, said, undeterred after a Canadian …
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Were They Just Using Me?’
Visits: 39 Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Sam with the Answer My girlfriends made a habit of crushing on my big brother John. Exactly why, I had no clue. He was bespectacled, …
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Take a Bath With Me’
Visits: 37 Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Face Like Her Mother’s In the supermarket yesterday, a young woman with three babies stopped stock still in front of me. “You look just …
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Who I Was Without a Wedding Ring’
Visits: 36 Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Portrait of Father and Son Growing up in the 1950s, I was an unathletic, slightly effeminate gay boy. In my late teens, I finally …